Title
Routing for Crowd Management in Smart Cities: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Perspective
Abstract
The concept of smart city has been flourishing based on the prosperous development of various advanced technologies: mobile edge computing (MEC), ultra-dense networking, and software defined networking. However, it becomes increasingly complicated to design routing strategies to meet the stringent and ever changing network requirements due to the dynamic distribution of the crowd in different sectors of smart cities. To alleviate the network congestion and balance the network load for supporting smart city services with dramatic disparities, we design a deep-reinforcement- learning-based smart routing algorithm to make the distributed computing and communication infrastructure thoroughly viable while simultaneously satisfying the latency constraints of service requests from the crowd. Besides the proposed algorithm, extensive numerical results are also presented to validate its efficacy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MCOM.2019.1800603
IEEE Communications Magazine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Smart cities,Routing,Servers,Medical services,Base stations,Computer architecture,Smart homes
Base station,Crowd management,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Mobile edge computing,Network congestion,Smart city,Software-defined networking,Distributed computing,Reinforcement learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
4
0163-6804
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Zhao1723.85
Jiadai Wang280.77
Jiajia Liu3137294.60
Nei Kato43982263.66